The Visual Studio F# team is excited to announce a preview release of F# 3.0 as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview , announced on Tuesday at the //build/ conference. This preview is available now for all MSDN subscribers .
The general release...

We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview release of version 3.1 of the F# language, with matching Visual F# tooling. These are included with the Visual Studio 2013 Preview Release announced at //BUILD/ and on Soma’s blog .
F#...

Today we are excited to announce the availability of the Visual F# Tools 3.1.1, our first update release to Visual F#. You can download the installer package here . Visual F# Tools 3.1.1 is a small, quick-deploying package that can be used to update...

Today, we are happy to announce a pre-release of F# 4.0 and the latest Visual F# Tools, for Visual Studio 2015 Preview. F# development tools are included in the box with the VS 2015 Preview download , but these bits were branched for stabilization some...

The F# team is excited to announce that F# Tools for Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web is now available!
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web (available here ) is a free development environment that programmers can use to build projects such as ASP...

[ Update: the latest version of the FSharp.Charting can now be found here. See the new documentation . Further information on the F# Community can be found at fsharp.org ]
Hi, I'm Keith Battocchi, and I'm working on making it easier to use F# for data...

A significant part of F# 3.0 support for F# Information Rich Programming is the F# Type Provider mechanism . An F# type provider is a component that provides types, properties, and methods for use in your program. For more information on F# 3.0 and the...

As a software engineer, I am frequently searching my projects’ source trees for various code snippets, or searching a collection of log files for a particular message, or some other type of text searching activity. The traditional Windows utility...

As announced on Jason Zander’s blog , Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download ! The release includes the Beta version of F# 3.0, which introduces F# Information Rich Programming . We have some new F# features to announce in this Beta release...

[ The CRM type provider sample is available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package, pat of the FSharpx community library. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" The updates below are in the process of being transferred into FSharpx...

Note: See the F# Software Foundation for the latest on Open Source and Cross-Platform F#
As announced by the Visual F# team t oday at StrangeLoop 2012 , the open source code drop for F# 3.0 is now available!
This code drop comes right on the heels...

Version 3.0 of the F# language (which ships with Visual Studio 2012) has a number of new language features. I expect that most people who follow F# are aware of the two big new language features: Type Providers and LINQ queries , which work together to...

We're very pleased to announce the availability of the Deedle package for Data Frame and Time Series programming with F# and C#.
Deedle is an open library developed by the F# community with the major contributors being BlueMountain Capital. Here's...

Earlier this week, the Release Candidate build of Visual Studio 2013 was announced . Like the Preview build before it, the RC contains a host of new features for F# developers, including F# 3.1 language updates and improved Visual F# tooling. ...

[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx". Further information on the F# Community can be found at fsharp.org ]
Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics...

Introduction
Several people have asked for more information on how tail calls behave in F#. This blog post will answer many frequently asked questions about tail calls, including why tail calls are important, how to identify them, and how the compiler...

[ Further information on the F# Community can be found at fsharp.org ]
Today the F# team has released an update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools Release , last updated in August 2010 .
This is a relatively small update to bring our free tools release...

Further information on the F# Community can be found at fsharp.org , which also hosts a copy of this specification.
The Visual F# team are glad to announce that we have now updated the F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 . The aim of this update is...

[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package, part of the FSharpx library. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" ]
Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample Part 2 -...

One of the great new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to view function return values in the debugger . This works not just for C# and VB, but for F#, as well. We didn’t include this in our list of new Visual F# tools features...

Further information on the F# Community can be found at fsharp.org
A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi ( alex.radi@gmail.com )
F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its functional-first methodology...

We are happy to announce the availability of Visual F# Tools 3.1.2, the latest update to the Visual F# compiler and F# IDE tooling for Visual Studio. You can download the installer package here . Building upon Visual F# 3.1 , and the first out-of...

This week's post is a guest article writtten by Dmitry Sevastianov with help from Dmitry Morozov , two members of the F# community, about FSharp.Data.SqlClient , a fascinatingly simple and elegant technique to integrate T-SQL and F# in new ways, using...

To the Visual F# Tools development community – Over the past months, we have made an impressive amount of progress together on F# 4.0 and the next version of the Visual F# Tools. There is still plenty of work remaining here. With the goal of shipping...

The Visual F# Team are very happy to announce that, through our participation in Microsoft Open Technologies (MSOpenTech) and in conjunction with the F# community , we are now able to accept contributions to the Visual F# Tools.
Through this, we will...